I just picked up CK: Complete and started playing it after having gotten into Paradox games via EUIII: Complete. Consequently, I'll have a lot of softball questions over the next few weeks.
I am playing on a Mac version, but I think gameplay questions should apply across any format.
To start I have been playing as small counties (starting in 1066) - lately I have picked Neuchatel as my standard - for no other reason that I decided I wanted to play something in Switzerland that might not be right in the middle of a ton of action. Plus, I noticed that the count was young with a new young wife and no appreciable family, so I decided he would be a great starting point for learning about raising kids and managing a small dynasty - all while learning the basics of economic and province management, military development, technological development, etc.
I figured this would leave major military involvement and vassal / extended family politics to learn at a later date.
Here are some questions I haven't been able to figure out so far:
1) One of my courtiers at the start was a family dynasty member (a single 28 year old woman - poor girl, you know there has to be something wrong with her to still be single at that age in that time...) She had a decent Intrigue skill, so with limited courtiers, she became my Spy Master. My question is twofold:
How important is it to get her married off when she is a member of my dynasty - but not in my direct family tree (she wasn't listed as a child, parent, sibling, etc.)? Keep in mind that I was short of courtiers, so without her I had no Spy Master.
How do I predict or improve the chances of making a successful marriage overture (I failed maybe 15 times before someone took her... "U-G-L-Y, you ain't got no alibi...")?
2) About 6 years into the game, Germany fell apart. I managed that just fine, and even beat a few German armies in my area. But the experience brought out a couple more questions:
I could engage enemy armies by moving into the same province, but couldn't figure out how to conduct a siege (once the enemy army was defeated or no longer in the province). Is there a special command to commence a siege? (Keep in mind that I am playing on the Mac version.)
Army upkeep costs are, obviously, giant. I disbanded whenever possible to save gold and rebuild the army, and my income was decent for Neuchatel - mainly because of my trollop wife (who started dating everything with a "Y" chromasome in sight, but also had the "Midas Touch" and so made a rediculously good Steward). Once I had solidified my independence and could revert to a peaceful economy, my "Treasury" was in the negative by about 150. At my income rate of about 4/month, that would have taken about 4 years to erase, much less go positive. Does that sound right?, or is there a better way to manage things or gain income that I don't know about?
Thanks in advance.
I am playing on a Mac version, but I think gameplay questions should apply across any format.
To start I have been playing as small counties (starting in 1066) - lately I have picked Neuchatel as my standard - for no other reason that I decided I wanted to play something in Switzerland that might not be right in the middle of a ton of action. Plus, I noticed that the count was young with a new young wife and no appreciable family, so I decided he would be a great starting point for learning about raising kids and managing a small dynasty - all while learning the basics of economic and province management, military development, technological development, etc.
I figured this would leave major military involvement and vassal / extended family politics to learn at a later date.
Here are some questions I haven't been able to figure out so far:
1) One of my courtiers at the start was a family dynasty member (a single 28 year old woman - poor girl, you know there has to be something wrong with her to still be single at that age in that time...) She had a decent Intrigue skill, so with limited courtiers, she became my Spy Master. My question is twofold:
How important is it to get her married off when she is a member of my dynasty - but not in my direct family tree (she wasn't listed as a child, parent, sibling, etc.)? Keep in mind that I was short of courtiers, so without her I had no Spy Master.
How do I predict or improve the chances of making a successful marriage overture (I failed maybe 15 times before someone took her... "U-G-L-Y, you ain't got no alibi...")?
2) About 6 years into the game, Germany fell apart. I managed that just fine, and even beat a few German armies in my area. But the experience brought out a couple more questions:
I could engage enemy armies by moving into the same province, but couldn't figure out how to conduct a siege (once the enemy army was defeated or no longer in the province). Is there a special command to commence a siege? (Keep in mind that I am playing on the Mac version.)
Army upkeep costs are, obviously, giant. I disbanded whenever possible to save gold and rebuild the army, and my income was decent for Neuchatel - mainly because of my trollop wife (who started dating everything with a "Y" chromasome in sight, but also had the "Midas Touch" and so made a rediculously good Steward). Once I had solidified my independence and could revert to a peaceful economy, my "Treasury" was in the negative by about 150. At my income rate of about 4/month, that would have taken about 4 years to erase, much less go positive. Does that sound right?, or is there a better way to manage things or gain income that I don't know about?
Thanks in advance.
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